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Bend-La Pine superintendent and school leaders urge access to statewide registry data after visitor-screening gap exposed
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Stephen Cook and school officials told the House Judiciary Committee that current state limitations on sharing sex-offender registry information left a blind spot in the district's visitor screening system, and they asked lawmakers to allow school systems access to level 1 and 2 registry data for on-the-spot screening.
Superintendent Dr. Stephen Cook testified at the House Judiciary Committee on April 17 that an incident at High Desert Middle School revealed a significant gap in school visitor screening: the district’s visitor-management system (Raptor) currently identifies only Oregon level-3 registrants from an online source, leaving the majority of registered sex offenders (level 1 and 2) undetected for point-of-entry screening.
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